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Troj/Exchan-A

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Included in our products from April 2008 (4.28)
Protection available since 11 February 2008 20:48:50 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Exchan-A is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

Troj/Exchan-A attempts to copy itself to <System>\CbEvtSvc.exe and create a service named CbEvtSvc to run this file automatically on startup, creating registry entries at the following location:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\CbEvtSvc

Troj/Exchan-A attempts to connect to a remote website and may download and execute further files from there.

Sophos's anti-virus products include Behavioral Genotype ® Protection, which can proactively guard against new threats without requiring an update. Sophos customers have been protected against Troj/Exchan-A (detected as Sus/Malware-A) since version 4.19.

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